Fire building
Three different sizes of wood needed for a fire. (explain)
What is tinder (the smallest, easiest-to-light material used to start a fire), kindling (sticks about the width of your pinky finger and help a fire grow after the tinder catches), fuel, (large logs to create a hot, long lasting fire)?
Stop, look, and listen.
What do you do when you hear any whistle command?
Safety precaution to ensure participants are knowledgeable and prepared for expedition.
What is a written and practical canoe test?
What are tents and hammocks?
Your campsite has flat ground, shade, and nearby water. It also has poison ivy throughout the area. What is the correct decision?
Choose a different campsite.
The three ingredients required for a fire to burn.
What are a spark, fuel, and oxygen?
People we need to participate in small craft activities.
What is a certified waterfront lifeguard, and a trained facilitator?
Name three weather conditions that would cancel expedition.
What are thunderstorms, lightning, high winds, or high temperatures?
Capacity of tents and hammocks.
What is three to a tent, one to a hammock?
A camper catches a fish and wants to throw it onto the bank.
Teach proper catch-and-release procedures.
This fire lay is useful to provide heat and light.
What is a teepee fire?
Parts of a fishing rod. (3)
What are the hook, rod, line, reel, sinker, push button, and bait?
Places within our boundaries around the campsite.
What are the lake, playground, and women's bathroom?
Hammock set up requirements.
What are two healthy trees, booty height, hammock is hanging at a slight sag/bend, and straps are secure.
Two campers refuse to work together in a canoe and the boat keeps spinning in circles.
Explain the necessity of communication, if they can't work together the lifeguard needs to tow them in.
The three P's.
What are patience, persistence, and preparation?
Activities at the lake offered at camp. (4)
What is canoeing, stand up paddleboarding, swimming, and fishing?
The three jobs assigned to canoes before departing.
What are the head boat (other canoes can not pass), tail boat (other canoes can not fall behind), and trip leader (gives commands, assists with issues, gives directions)?
Things to look for in choosing a spot to pitch a tent.
What are level ground, distance from water, low hanging branches or dead trees, poison ivy, ant hills, animal droppings, distance from fire pit, and wind direction?
During burn the rope, a few campers are pressuring one of their peers to start the fire quickly with flint and steel, and trying to take over, she is getting visibly frustrated, and they are persistent.
Fire safety rules. (At least three)
What are tying hair back and removing loose clothing, having a water bucket and shovel nearby, establishing a fire circle, maintaining three points of contact when adding fuel to the fire, making sure we are not in a fire ban, and ensuring the area around the fire pit is clear of debris?
Canoe facilitation.
What are boundaries on the water, safety rules, parts of the canoe, how to hold a paddle, and paddling specifics (turning, going straight, reversing)?
The goals of expedition.
What are progressive programming, outdoor skills, independence, challenge seeking, and self care tools.
Checking gear.
What is making sure tents have poles, stakes, and rainflies, checking hammocks are not damaged, and have the correct amount of straps?
It is pouring down rain the evening of packout and is not forecasted to stop.
What do you do?